In my point of view a team to coordinate the grant (and to control budget) would be really welcome.
I would stress that for PEG/GAC team and staff the workload is multiplied for 100 because every country participating in the contest is eligible to apply for a grant.
In my opinion more tasks assigned to this team (like for instance the gadgeting) would help to cut off the costs of every national contest, to rationalize and to coordinate centrally some tasks and to look for better price and to reduce the time of evaluation per single budget. And naturally to help the PEG/GAC committee to have lighter proposal to be evaluated (and it means the reduction of time to evaluate).
What I can suggest is the creation of a larger team with two different section: one more organizational and a second one more administrative. Probably a call done in the same PEG committee would help to recruit someone that would participate in the second group of this bigger team.
Regards
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Karthik Nadar karthikndr@wikimedia.in wrote:
Hi Marteen,
I understand how difficult and tiring is the grant process and then the reporting. Lodewijk, me and Cristian have gone through this in 2013 and I also believe you had gone through this in 2012 and it killed all of us; or atleast I can talk for myself.
Still, I don't believe if we will need a different team just for grant; maybe what we can do is we can have a little more team members and we can have 4-5 members exclusively focused on grant and reporting and then at other fronts.
Yan,
10 members team will be exactly as I had said earlier; too many cooks will spoil the food. May be we can look at 7 members team. 2013 international team were perfect; yes it was challenging though (again I'm talking for myself; others may have different persoonal opinion).
Regards from Mumbai, Karthik Nadar.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Hi Alex,
Alex Wang schreef op 30-12-2014 om 20:33:
Please also note that last year PEG funded 7 WLM grants (+1 to the international team). The earliest request was made in June and the last in mid-September. Next year, we will recommend that national requests come in by early July, and will be communicating this as well as other tips on national WLM grant requests, over the next couple of months.
You're kidding right? That's much too late. The fact that this year the organization was chaotic and everyone was too late doesn't mean it should happen like that every year. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timelin... for a proper timeline . You should encourage teams to have a proper planning so they can achieve excellent results instead of hurried just in time results.
Maarten
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